Albert Evans, social media editor, posting up the key themes from the NUJ delegate meeting. Diversity #NUJDM Michelle Stanistreet I’ll try to be brief. This is a motion that would accept us agreeing to the end of the NUJ as we know #nujdm motion 127 – NUJ to become a union for media workers and …
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NUJ’s first woman General Secretary speaks about role
Michelle Stanistreet is the first woman to take the position of National Union of Journalists General Secretary, as well as the first person to move from Deputy Secretary to General. Michelle was still in shock the day after she found out she had got the position and said: “It wasn’t how I expected yesterday to …
Stanistreet says NUJ is too male and pale
The National Union of Journalists’ General Secretary Elect, Michelle Stanistreet, says the NUJ is “too male and too pale”. Speaking on the motion of equality at the NUJ Delegate Meeting, she emphasised the need for more female representation at the Delegate Meetings. Stanistreet, the first ever woman elected to the position of General Secretary of …
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear’s final DM speech
NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear launched an attack on Coalition cuts, Murdoch and working conditions in his opening speech to the NUJ delegate meeting in Southport. Dear attacked government policy saying it was politically motivated. He called it George Osborne’s “big lie” and called for tougher laws on tax evasion. Dear said” “Firefighters did not …